Discussion and participation

COM 362
Instructions:
Respond to both questions with minimum 75 words not including reference, be sure to not plagiarize. and send plagiarism report over with completed work. Be sure to add reference to each response.

Topic 2 DQ 1
When watching or reading the news, what fallacies do you see people make most often in their arguments?
Topic 2 DQ 2
Identify a fallacy you used in a recent discussion with another person. Why did you use that fallacy and how can you address the concern without the use of the fallacy?
Topic 3 DQ 1
Find an example in society of a dispute that is (1) based on the ambiguity of language and (2) is not a genuine dispute. Point out the differences and propose how to resolve the dispute.
Topic 3 DQ 2
Take a term that is related to a social issue you are personally interested in and clearly define it. For example, defining a right vs a privilege in the debates on health care. Comment on another student’s post by seeing if you can find an exception that is excluded from the definition given.

Instructions:
Be sure to respond with a substantive post. A substantive post is one that builds upon the conversation by recognizing the topic, adding your own thoughts on the matter, and then concluding with an open-ended question to keep the ball rolling. Students are expected to include APA citations, if appropriate. Each response needs to be 55 words minimum. NO PLAGIARISM!!! No reference required for these 2 responses.
1. Lily-According to the article “Logical Fallacies”, “a fallacy is an “argument” in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support.” Fallacies are everywhere even in our daily life. To my limited understanding and acknowledge, especially during chaos and pandemic, two fallacies, “appeal to authorities” and “circular reasoning” are seen often in our community.
I would like to use the example of how to prevent Covid-19 to show “appeal to authorities”. At the beginning of the pandemic, so many professionals provide their advice, and people followed. The result is that virus went wild and became uncontrollable. Many people even broke the regulation of quarantine because certain pasters promise that Covid-19 wouldn’t be a problem for people gathering together to worship God. People sometimes don’t even question what these authorities claimed. Still remember that a few months ago, over one hundred people were poisoned because president Trump said that drinking disinfectants could prevent the COVID virus? It is ridiculous.
Another fallacy “circular reasoning” also ridiculous when people consider premise X must be true because it is premise X. A fight breaks out in the park that a white woman called the police because another man in the park was black and she was afraid. That’s a hasty generalization. To justify a person for his or her color is just a fallacy. The same fallacy just repeats again and again in our lives now. People attack police officers because a white policeman killed a black innocent young man a while ago. I suggest that these people should take this class.
Lily Pan
2. Marlene- Hello Class,
A fallacy is an error in reasoning. It can also be a mistake made in an idea or a false belief. It is used to identify typical errors. Gottlob Frege said “indicate the pitfalls laid by language in the way of the thinker” this is the job of the logicians (Copi, Cohen, & McMahon, 2015). When an argument is incorrect it makes a fallacy. There are formal and informal fallacies. A formal fallacy is a pattern of mistakes in a deductive argument. An informal fallacy is mistakes used in everyday talk. Informal fallacies can be harder to figure out than a formal fallacy. The language used can trick us into thinking they are correct. You can avoid being tricked if you understand the traps that can happen in language. To discover if something is a fallacy you must carefully figure out what are they really trying to say. Sometimes the authors point can be missed or may even be a joke. I feel that the news and media will many time use is the appeals to emotion. The media and news will many times tell stories in way that they get the reader or listeners attention by using their emotions. They want to make their audience pity the person or animal in the situation. This is a fallacy of emotions the pity emotion. The commercials they use for animals that have been abuse and the SPCA is asking for sponsors is one that will tug at your emotions to give donations to them. The other fallacy that the media or news will use is the appeals to inappropriate authority. They will use someone who is popular or is seen as someone important and use them as the authority of their story. Just because someone is popular in in a position of authority does not make them an expert in a certain subject.
Reference: Copi, I. M., Cohen, C., & McMahon, K. (2015). Introduction to Logic (14th edition). Retrieved September 02, 2020, from https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/taylor-and-francis-inc/2016/introduction-to-logic_ebook_14e.php

Marlene